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Mission Into Ice Clouds: Q&A with Pilot Bill Rieke
William Rieke is the research pilot for the Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment.
NASA’s Kepler Reaches into the Stars
New findings published in three papers in the journal Science illustrate the power of the Kepler…
SOFIA Completes First Flight of German Instrument
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, completed its first science flight Wednesday, April 6,…
Is the Moon Titan Shaped By Weather, or Ice Volcanoes?
Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling…
Nobel Prize Winner Baruch Blumberg Dies
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, who served as the first director of the NASA…
Baruch Blumberg Dies of Apparent Heart Attack
Dr. Baruch "Barry" Blumberg, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine and a former director…
Science Q&A with Eric Jensen
The Mid-latitude Airborne Cirrus Properties Experiment (MACPEX) is an airborne field campaign to investigate cirrus cloud…
Kepler Mission Reveals Inner Secrets of Giant Stars
University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of the senior citizens…
Media Invited to Yuri’s Education Day at NASA Ames
More than 6,000 students from all over the Bay Area will convene to celebrate the 50th…